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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
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PIANO AND ORGAN
FELTIETGS
A. B. CROCKER & CO,
OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION.
Kingston, Essex & Eiinburo Sts.,
BOSTON, MASS.
THE
Sterling Company,
THE Henning Manufacturing Company has been in-
corporated in Chicago, III., for the manufacture of
small musical instruments and music publishing. The
company has a capital stock of $5,000. John E. Hen-
ning, Wm. S. Haspel, and Harry F, Carson are the
stockholders.
THE Jesse French Piano and Organ Co. are about to
erect a new four-story brick building in Nashville,
Tenn. A fine music hall will be an important feature
of the edifice.
THE catalogue of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 111., is
much is demand in European cities.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Pianos and Organs,
FACTORY :
BY far the prettiest advertisement received by us
during the present holiday season is that of Messrs.
DERBY, CONN.
William Tonk & Bro., N. Y., consisting of a represen-
tation of the New Year in the shape of a laughing
It is admitted by all that no piano ever put upon the
comely, chubby cherub playing upon a pipe and sur-
market
has met with such success as THE STERLING
rounded by a frame of twigs and leaves of holly.
and thousands will testify to their superiority of work-
T. F. KRAEMER & Co., the New York piano stool
and cover manufacturers, will immediately enter upon manship and durability. Why ? Because they are made
the manufacture of guitars and mandolins at their fac- just as perfect as a piano can be made.
tory, Steinway, L. I. The new department will be con-
THE STERLING ORGAN has always taken the lead, and
ducted by Mr. Chas. Miethke.
the improvements made this year puts it far ahead of
HAINES BROS', (N. Y.,) business for 1890 was by far,
all others. B^*" Send for Catalogue.
the greatest ever done by them in a single year.
IT is announced that Messrs. Behr Brothers & Co.'s
capital stock has been increased to $500,000.
THE business done by the New England Piano Co.
of New York in December, 1890, was considerably in
excess of that accomplished by them in December 1889.
IN Jack Haynes' warerooms in East Seventeenth
street, N. Y., may be seen an interesting historical
relic of piano manufacture bearing the following in-
scription:—" Charles Zumpe, London, 1768." This
piano is a quaint old instrument, having four and one-
third octaves, with black natural keys and white
sharps. It was picked up by Mr. Haynes on one of his
trips, and will, no doubt, prove to be of interest to con-
noisseurs of old pianos.
OUR attention has been called to the numerous
papers in which may be found the advertisements of
Decker Brothers' agents—papers published in every
part of the Union and also In Canada. These agents
appear to be thoroughly alive to the advantage of judic-
ious advertising, C. W. Lindsay of Montreal is one of
the many who, owing to tact, energy, the goodness of
the instruments, and wisely-placed, plentiful advertis-
ing, are doing an enormous trade in Decker Brothers'
pianos.
THE progressive and enterprising firm of Newby &
Evans, N. Y., now have their piano factory manned
with the full complement of men, some, but not many,
being their employes prior to the varnishers' strike.
They are filling orders accumulated during the recent
labor troubles with all possible rapidity, but do not
anticipate being abreast of orders for several weeks.
MR. CHARLES HOFFMANN, for the last seven years
bookkeeper of Ed. Schuberth & Co., N. Y., died of
pneumonia on the 21st ult.
FOK several years past Mr. F. J. Schwankovsky, the
well known music dealer of Detroit, Mich., has given
each of his employees a substantial pecuniary Christ-
mas gift. This year the employees resolved to ac-
knowledge the courtesy in kind. On the 24th ult. they
invaded Mr. Schwankovsky's private office, and pre-
sented him with a magnificent traveling valise, exactly
like that given to President Harrison some time ago
by the Commercial Travelers' Association. Mr. John
E. Keating, the firm's bookkeeper, delivered an excel-
lent presentation speech, and Mr. Schwankovsky, who
was equally surprised and delighted, returned thanks
in well-chosen words.
THE piano and organ store of Peek & Cunis, Red
Bank, N. J., was damaged by fire to the extent of
fi 3,000 on the night of Dec. 24th ult. Insnrance for
$6,000 had been effected.
KROKGER & SONS, N. Y., are shipping all styles of
their pianos as fast as they can be completed. Their
trade in uprights is tremendous, and that in grands is
also remarkably good. Not a single unfinished piano
is to be seen in their factory or warerooms. They are
behind on orders to the extent of a full months' work
at the very least.
WE have received the 1891 calendar of John C. Haynes
& Co., Boston, Mass., and the other Ditson firms. It
combines the picturesque and the practical, containing,
in addition to calendar, a view of Notre Dame from
the Seine and an announcement as to certain Bay State
and other guitars, mandolins, and banjo*
THE Janko Keyboard has been adopted by the Leip-
zig Royal Conservatory of Music.
BOSTON. MASS.
HIGH GRADE
Fi laiios
^rgatts
Also Exclusive Manufacturers
of the
REGAL PIANOS,
531 Tremoflt Street,
Boston, Mass.
^, 146 Fifth
lv
New York.
Yours Respectfully,
THE SMITH AH. ORGAN & PIANO GO.
Hallet 4 Davis Pianos
THE incorporators of the Henning Piano Company,
N. Y., are Christian H. Henning, Freeborn G, Smith,
Sr., Freeborn G. Smith, Jr., Stewart L. Woodford, A.
S. Bacon and A. J. Powell. The officers of the Com.
pany are C. II. Henning, president and manager;
Freeborn G. Smith, vice-president; A. J. Powell, secre-
tary and treasurer. The headquarters are for the
present at No. 121 avenue D., N. Y., but from the
amount of work now being done at that factory (which
js also occupied by the Webster Piano Co.,) it looks as
though different quarters must be secured ere long.
THE Ludden & Bates Southern Music House, Sav-
annah, Ga., celebrated their twentieth birthday on the
22d and 23d ult. Multitudes of people visited the
famous establishment and viewed the splendid display
of pianos, organs, violins, etc. Musical performances
of a high order were a conspicuous feature of the oc-
casion, which passed off most brilliantly and was the
theme of much congratulatory comment by the press
and otherwise.
MR. G. R. FLEMING, of Hurtzig, Fleming & Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa., was presented by the employees of
the office and salesroom of that firm with a Christmas
gift in the shape of a beautiful gold watch.
A NEVT music firm is about to be started in Reading,
Pa.
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT.
Indorsed by List, Gottschalk, Wehli, Bendel, Straus, Soro, Abt,
Paulus, Titiens, Heilbron and Germany's Greatest Masters.
Established over Half a Century.
BOSTON, MASS*